Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 101

"Quantième Perpétuel" Breguet, "Quantième Perpétuel", No. 3557, Ref. 3310. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual and lunar calendar, moon phases, 45 hour-power reserve sector and an 18K yellow gold Breguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate, and setting pin.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded band, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, sapphire crystal. D. Guilloché silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain outer reserve, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months and the leap year, graduation for the age of the moon between 1 and 2 and the up-and-down indication at 11, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 502, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm. Property of an East Coast Collector